i've got to start with stacy honowitz. you're the prosecutor. the sickest part of this for me is that while police grilled the mom for a dozen hours, her surviving twin daughter, the one she didn't throw in the trash, the one who was in the house, was fighting for her life under a bed, inside the home, evidently missed by cops during their initial visit. so it seems likely that this mom knew the clock was ticking on her surviving daughter and yet, she stalled cops allegedly with lies for 12 long hours. >> well, if she did what she did to the first kid, what would make you think that all of a sudden she would become this redeeming person and talk about this other child? this is the most repulsive, disgusting case you can really imagine. and quite frankly, it's amazing to me that they're charging her with manslaughter. this is a felony murder case in my book. this is child abuse. you leave your three kids for three days with no electricity, water or food, that's child abuse. the child died in the commission of a felony. it's felony murder. so i'm

florida prosecutor stacy honowitz. criminal defense attorney, mark eiglarsh and marlena schiavo. producer for the nancy grace so. so glad to have you on our show tonight. what is the very latest? >> the very latest, jane, is that misty croslin cummings, soon to be back misty croslin, speaks out to the cbs morning show, the "early show." she's saying and we think she's saying that ronald, ex-girlfriend, the biological mother of haleigh cummings, may have something to do with haleigh's disappearance. now, like you said, it's a cryptic thing that she said on the show but crystal sheffield, the biological mother, has spoken out against misty in the past, so is this misty lashing out at crystal, possibly. >> we couldn't really tell who she was talking about. she's like the other side of the family. and then she didn't really say which other side of the family. that's such a vague comment, that could mean anybody. could mean ron, it could mean crystal, it could mean crystal's family. i mean, it's such a can of worms in terms of the interrelationships with all these people. do we really

let's welcome stacy honowitz, florida prosecutor. if, a big if, if the post story is true, do you think letterman knew he had essentially been caught in this kind of ugly triangle, why do you think he went to the cops? do you think he could be having second thoughts at this point? >> well, i think any time any salacious kind of facts come out about you, you might be second-guessing what you did and i think maybe when he went to the police officers originally or to the d.a.'s office, he thought to himself if i nip this in the bud and get this guy arrested, none of these facts are going to come out. unfortunately, that's not the case because you are hearing about all of these escapades that took place at work. >> stacy, he's so sophisticated -- >> what's unfortunate now is you're hearing about certain things that took place between them that really were between consenting adults and the issues that we're hearing about now is, is it really that bad, is it so, so bad because letterman was married at the time and it's an adulterous affair